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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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Best setup ever:
1)install Linux on one drive.
2)install Windows on a second drive.
3)boot from grub on the first drive and add an entry to boot Windows.
4)on a 3rd drive format it ext3 or optionally dos. Mount this puppy at /home or even /home/user.
5)don't let windows touch you Linux home drive ever. Fuck windows and Microsoft. Both can suck my entire ass. If you ever need to share files between these systems use a pen drive. Microsoft doesn't deserve you. Just use it as a last resort, do your thing and GTFO ASAP.
That space at the end of 1) is doing some heavy lifting.
Time to install to OneDrive.
I've got this setup, but optimized slightly:
LOL exactly!
I used to run Windows on an esata drive that I would only power up occasionally in order to game, and it still somehow -- and I don't remember how -- managed to ruin my computer.
Yeah, isolated home drive is the way to go. You just nuke Linux and windows and restart but your stuff is safe.
What's wrong with a VM? I set up a Win10 instance in VMM right after I switched to Linux full time 10 months ago, but I had to use it exactly once to configure the RGB on my keyboard, and haven't had a reason to boot it up since.
From what I understood, it runs on 'Bare Metal' which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the *nix which is minimal.
I'm not saying it's better, I'm honestly asking because I have very little experience with it.
I used to dual boot back in the day, but that was when I was still on HDDs and the long ass boot times meant I usually just stayed in Windows if I was planning on gaming that day.
That's not how that works. I think your confusing bare metal with bare metal hypervisor. The latter is meant to mean a Type-1 Hypervisor, which KVM isn't anyway but that's another story.
Without GPU pass through you aren't going to get nearly the graphics performance for something like gaming. I've also had issues with KVM and libvirt breaking during sleep. It's a lot more janky than you make out.